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Garry Trudeau On 50 Years Of 'Doonesbury': 'I Just Followed My Interests' : NPR


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The groundbreaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for half a century. Its willingness to tackle social issues, politics and war made it the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize. Doonesbury has also been censored for some of those same reasons. To celebrate the strip s 50th anniversary, there s a new book that includes a thumb drive with all 15,000 strips. Jon Kalish spoke with its creator and prepared this report.
JON KALISH, BYLINE: Doonesbury started when Garry Trudeau was a junior at Yale. It was originally called Bull Tales, and it caught the attention of a fledgling newspaper syndicate. Trudeau says he was told the drawing and lettering needed work, but it read like dispatches from the front lines of the counterculture. ....

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'I Just Followed My Interests': Garry Trudeau On 50 Years Of 'Doonesbury'


Wednesday, April 21, 2004
DOONESBURY © G. B. Trudeau. Reprinted with permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved. Image: ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
The ground-breaking comic strip
Doonesbury has been with us for a half-century. It was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. It s also been censored for some of those same reasons.
It all began as an irreverent strip called
Bull Tales in the
Yale Daily News when Garry Trudeau was a junior. Its main character was B.D., who was based on Yale s standout quarterback, Brian Dowling. The strip caught the attention of a fledgling newspaper syndicate which told Trudeau the drawing and lettering needed work but also told him it read like dispatches from the front lines of the counter culture. ....

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